This album – the band’s fourth and probably last – features just about everything that’s good about dada. The energy and harmonies most prominently featured on Puzzle are back, and so are the catchy melodies, this time with a little bit more electric guitar and production complexity. “Where You’re Going” uses echoing guitar as an anchor in the background, while the percussion, bass and more guitar drive the song. “The Ballad of Earl Grey and Chamomile” features more great guitar work and is a close second as my favorite song on the album. It’s yet another look back at happier times, which might become a clichè if dada didn’t do it so damned well. The background vocals on the chorus do a tremendous job of making you feel the excitement of those better days. “Information Undertow” has some of dada’s most inventive lyrics, and they only seem more apropos four years later, although my appreciation of lines like “I’m everywhere I want to be, nowhere especially” may say more than I want to about my own online habits. Goodbye is 
a beautiful ballad about the end of a relationship. “Beautiful Turnback Time Machine” is a cool track about what we’d do if we could do it all over again. “This Thing Together”, a song whose optimism may or may not be tempered by the “You know I’ll miss you when you’re gone” chorus, is carried by the vocals but has a great rhythm to it.
- Information Undertow (3:33)
- Playboy in Outerspace (4:53)
- Where You’re Going (3:39)
- California Gold (5:30)
- Thins Thing Together (3:48)
- Sweet Dark Angel (4:10)
- Goodbye (3:55)
- Beautiful Turnback Time Machine (4:21)
- Baby Really Loves Me (4:13)
- Spinning My Wheels (4:45)
- Outside (3:08)
- The Ballad of Earl Grey and Chamomile (3:46)
- Agent’s Got No Secret (4:22)
Released by: MCA
Release date: 1998
Total running time: 54:11
